Quotes About Comparison To Others

#1. These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

William J. Clinton

#2. Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

Eric Greitens

#3. Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.

Joe Paterno

#4. The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

Azar Nafisi

#5. Uniqueness lies in not comparing oneself to others.

Raheel Farooq

#6. You are not required to perform like them, you are required to perform like you.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#7. Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

Ravi Teja

#8. But, to Shepherd, life seemed to be laid out like a golf course, with a series of beginnings, hazards, and ends, and with a definite summing up - for comparison with others scores - after each hole.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

Carly Fiorina

#10. When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others.

Charles R. Swindoll

#11. Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

James C. Collins

#12. If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such contortions would pale in comparison to those of the others.

Joseph Roth

#13. If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all ... How can I possibly serve another person in unfeigned humility if I seriously regard his sinfulness as worse than my own?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. Comparison with myself brings improvement, comparison with others brings discontent.

Betty Jamie Chung

#15. There were many at Bell Labs and MIT who compared Shannon's insight to Einstein's. Others found that comparison unfair - unfair to Shannon.

William Poundstone

#16. I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

Daisaku Ikeda

#17. Why do you compare yourself to others?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

Grace Gealey

#19. If you think by comparing them you're making them inspire, you couldn't be more wrong.

Sarvesh Jain

#20. Servants don't know a good master till they have served a worse.

Aesop

#21. It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. Waste no time to compare yourself with others. Find your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#25. Stop thinking you're doing it all wrong. Your path doesn't look like anybody else's because it can't, it shouldn't, and it won't.

Eleanor Brownn

#26. Dear YOU, don't compare yourself to ANYONE. Your Unique Self is empowered, powerful, and unstoppable! Your uniqueness is what makes you incomparable! Don't underestimate the beauty of just being YOU.

Stephanie Lahart

#27. I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

Erykah Badu

#28. Serving a God who is relentless in His pursuit to save me is my daily reminder that the value I place on my myself or that which others may place on me will always fall short in comparison to the value Jesus places on me.

Diana Rowe

#29. Don't waste you energy to compare your life with others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

William Wycherley

#31. He was Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller on steroids. Sure, he was stuck up just like any rich snob was, but only to those whom he thought of as a threat to him.

Justin Bienvenue

#32. If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms 'large,' 'small,' 'immense,' 'minute,' etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time 'immense' and at another 'imperceptible.

Galileo Galilei

#35. It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#36. It's always going to be easy to live like others or other's life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in comparison to buying or borrowing anything from others.

Anuj

#37. In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.

Heimito Von Doderer

#38. Never worry about the delay of your success compared to others, because construction of a palace takes more time than an ordinary building.

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